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  2. Parental Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution

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    The Parental Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution is a proposed change to the United States Constitution. The amendment's advocates say that it will allow parents' rights to direct the upbringing of their children, protected from federal interference, and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child .

  3. Timeline of women's legal rights in the United States (other ...

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    Maine: Married women are given the right to own (but not control) property in their own name. [4] 1841. Maryland: Married women are given the right to own (but not control) property in their own name. [4] 1842. New Hampshire: Married women are given the right to own and manage property in their own name during the incapacity of their spouse. [4 ...

  4. Equal Rights Amendment - Wikipedia

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    The resolution, "Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to equal rights for men and women", reads, in part: [1] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States ...

  5. Both were thwarted by Plyler vs. Doe — a 1982 Supreme Court case establishing the constitutional right of equal access to public education regardless of immigration status.

  6. What the 14th Amendment says about birthright citizenship - AOL

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    President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined in the 14th Amendment. We asked two experts in constitutional and immigration law to walk us ...

  7. Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act - Wikipedia

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    This policy has been criticized for being a punitive system that violates the rights of both the women and their children by intruding on the mothers' constitutional rights to procreation, [76] privacy, [77] and reproductive choice, [78] which includes their decisions to be a parent [76] [79] or not; [78] [80] and penalizing mothers for ...

  8. Timeline of young people's rights in the United States

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    In a report examining the status of children's rights in the United States, Hillary Clinton, then a lawyer, wrote that "children's rights" was a "slogan in need of a definition." [23] 1973 Indiana: The first joint custody statute in the U.S. goes into effect in Indiana, allowing children the right to both parents after a divorce. 1974

  9. Children's rights - Wikipedia

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    Children's rights or the rights of children are a subset of human rights with particular attention to the rights of special protection and care afforded to minors. [1] The 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) defines a child as "any human being below the age of eighteen years, unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier."